What features does a full-blooded Native American have?

The famous soccer player Joel Huqui. He has a very distinct look.

There are no "distinct features". Natives come from 566 entirely different tribes, from all regions, and come in all shapes, sizes, colorings. You've probably seen a lot more than a handful, but just didn't recognize them because they don't fit the Hollywood stereotype of what you've been taught Indians are supposed to look like. Many "full-blooded" Indians have light skin and brown hair. Heck, this is what the REAL Pocahontas looked like- light skin and brown hair, not at all like Disney's travesty: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pocahontas_...

And high cheekbones? no. Not all natives have them, and not everyone who does is native. Tons of people from Europe and other cultures have high cheekbones.

You don't have Cherokee "blood". You have undocumented family folklore about a Cherokee ancestor- exactly like 3 million other people. Want to find out if the story is true? Easy, do your family tree, tracing back one generation at a time. Then check the census records and find out if your ancestors are listed as Indians. If they were, they will be documented as such. Indian weren't even US citizens until 1924, so VERY accurate records were kept regarding Indians, especially the THREE different Cherokee tribes.

Native American is a lump term.....encompassing the citizens of 566 soon to be 567) different tribes. You don't expect all those people to look the same, do you? Or possess the same features? Do all whites possess the same features? All Blacks? All Asians? Of course not....

High cheekbones....can be found commonly amongst ALL people...the world over.

There is No specific look or set of features to define one as Native. Just citizenship and recognition by the Nation.

Just like the notion of blood is silly. There is nothing inherently Indian about blood. There isn't any culture in it. And it's 99.96% the exact same as every other human on the planet.

Here is a link to some old pictures. Now, go online and search for modern 21st century Natives, and you will see that we have changed with the times too. Put some of these old timers into blue jeans and t-shirts and they would look like many thousands of us.. I bet your great great granny was a full blood Cherokee ennit?

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Pictures/America...

go to arizona, or to an indian casino; order a drink in a bar and sit down and enjoy your beer. do people actually, care what you look like?

if you are concerned about your genetic heritage and believe that that determines who you are, then pay someone who is a professional geneticist to do your genotype. it is expensive, but is used all of thetime in anthropology.

chech the sciencedaily.com website to see the uses for genetics in determining entire population history and heritiage.

its varies from tribes.tribes in america look one way while the inuit and indigenious people of latin america look another way.

a tribal id card. nothing else.

Slanty eyes and brown skin.